VPN is of course the answer, if you really MUST perform 'sensitive' tasks from unsecured networks. But personally, I can hold off doing my online banking until I get home. Normal websurfing and gmail I just don't worry about. Though I _do_ always use 'https' for gmail.
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Fred Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sure appreciate someone explaining this to me... > trying to figure a way to make a public wireless connection secure for > checking email, logging in to sensitive sites etc. seems like the nature of > public wireless is that all is transmitted in the clear. would be great to > be able to use wpa, but many hotels and convenient wireless internet don't > seem to offer encryption. is there any way to protect wireless transmission > on a public connection? > also seems that this issue should be same for pc or mac, no? > thanks for any help > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
